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The early detection of fire, smoke, and dust can be crucial to protecting your powder bulk solids business – and video analytics can be a powerful tool in monitoring for these potential hazards. In fact, sophisticated analytic software can make video detection a more effective means of spotting trouble signs than conventional methods of fire and smoke detection.
This free white paper covers the basics of using video analytics for the detection of fire, smoke, dust, and oil-mist, and how video analytics can be beneficial to powder bulk solids companies in particular. Topics covered include:
- How video analytics are used to detect fire, smoke, dust, and oil mist.
- Advantages over conventional detection/monitoring methods.
- Use with explosion-prevention and dust-detection equipment in bulk solids.
- The installation process.

Industry 4.0 is a frequently used term at conventions and in industry research, but for North American manufacturing firms the concept is often not fully implemented into operations. There are signs this may be changing, according to German industrial control and automation company Festo Corp. In advance of a presentation at this year's Powder & Bulk Solids Montreal show, Festo Canada's Technology Driver for Advanced Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Ben Hope spoke with Powder & Bulk Solids about how manufacturing companies can embrace the new digital capabilities of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
While some bemoan the security concerns and logistical steps that accompany implementation of Industry 4.0 solutions, industry experts foresee tremendous growth in IIoT capabilities among U.S. industrial firms.
Register now to read Powder & Bulk Solids' free whitepaper on moving Industry 4.0 from a concept to implentation and value generation.
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Erosive wear is the main cause of depletion in diverter valves conveying highly abrasive materials. Download this white paper to learn how erosive wear occurs and to find out what you can do to slow down or eliminate this problem.
Coperion (www.coperion.com) is the international market and technology leader in compounding systems, feeding technology, bulk materials handling systems and services. Coperion designs, develops, manufactures and maintains systems, machines and components for the plastics, chemicals, pharmaceutical, food and minerals industries. Within its four divisions – Compounding & Extrusion, Equipment & Systems, Materials Handling and Service – Coperion has 2,500 employees and nearly 40 sales and service companies worldwide. Coperion K-Tron (www.coperionktron.com) is a brand of Coperion.

Two and a half billion gigabytes.
That’s the amount of data generated daily by the process industry, according to a recent estimate.
Is your organization prepared to harness Big Data's potential to improve process safety? Powder & Bulk Solids spoke with representatives from Siemens and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Center for Chemical Process Safety about the rise of IIoT Big Data technology in industry and how companies can prepare to utilize the massive amount of information to reduce or predict safety incidents.
“Everything is going to be more and more connected. If you do not do something about it and make your business better, your business safer, the company is going to lose,” Jagannath Rao, vice president of Siemens' Customer Services unit told Powder & Bulk Solids.
The time is now. Download PBS' latest industry feature to learn how industry is approaching Big Data in process safety.

With a resurgence of hemp cultivation in the 1990s in Asia, Europe and Canada and the recent expansion of opportunities for hemp research in the U.S. and Australia, there is growing interest in the material.
Rising demand for healthy, natural food and beauty products is fueling growth in hemp food products, cosmetics, supplements, and oils. A need for alternatives to petroleum-based plastics and fossil energy sources is spurring development of hemp-based bioplastics, biofuels, and bioreactor processes. Oil prices are driving research in lightweight, hemp-based fiber composites for automotive and aerospace uses. The plant is even finding its way into nanotechnology applications as a natural, cheaper alternative to graphene.
Download to read Powder & Bulk Solids' coverage of the burgeoning hemp industry in the U.S. and beyond to see how engineers and manufacturers are working with the reemerging material and what considerations processors and manufacturers need to take into account when considering using the material.

Does your powder bulk solids company know the ins and outs of the new NFPA standard, 652: Standard on the Fundamentals of Combustible Dust? The association’s most-recent standard provides general requirements for management of combustible-dust fire and explosion hazards and directs users to NFPA’s industry- or commodity-specific standards, including 654, 664, and 484, as needed.
How will this standard affect risk management, personnel training, and day-to-day operations at your facility?
This free white paper guides industry through 652, highlighting potential challenges of implementing the standard and suggesting solid solutions.
Compliance issues addressed in this paper include:
• Understanding dust hazard analysis (DHA) requirements
• Determining whether dust is combustible before assessing subsequent hazards
• Conditions under which fire-protection measures will need to be taken
• …and more

A distinguished panel of professional engineers from such industry heavyweights as The Dow Chemical Co., Kellogg Co., The Kraft Heinz Co., and DuPont weigh in on a range of topics affecting the industry, including the challenges of buying processing equipment for their companies, the future of food and chemical processing, and data and automation in the age of the Internet.
Download this exclusive inside look at the powder and bulk solids industry for free.

2016 could be a bellwether year for combustible dust standards.
In June, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) starts its first revision cycle of NFPA 652, the organization’s newly introduced combustible dust standard for general industry. Later this fall, the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is preparing to hold a panel examining impacts of a proposed OSHA combustible dust standard on small businesses – the first major event in its combustible dust rulemaking process to be scheduled since 2010. This year, the level of interest and the character of comments in the NFPA’s 652 revision process and OSHA’s proposed panel could significantly shape discussions on - and development of - both entities’ combustible dust activities in 2017 and beyond.
Download the full feature from Powder & Bulk Solids to learn more about developments of combustible dust standards in 2016.

The low speed, high torque KE Series Shredder is ruggedly constructed to process the toughest materials with ease. Dual shaft cutters reduce material by compression and shearing action, providing an ideal primary grind and consistent end product for a wide variety of applications.

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